The Constitutional Protection of Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781841138596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 220 str.

Danny Nicol

Opis

In 1945, the Labour government deployed Britain's national autonomy and parliamentary sovereignty to nationalize key industries and services - such as coal, rail, gas, and electricity - and to establish a publicly-owned National Health Service. This timely, controversial, and provocative book argues that constitutional constraints stemming from economic and legal globalization would now preclude such a program. First, it contends that while no state has ever, or could ever, possess complete freedom of action, nonetheless the rise of the transnational corporation means that national autonomy is now severely restricted. Secondly, these economic constraints have been reinforced and legitimized by the creation on the part of world leaders of a globalized constitutional law of trade and competition. This has been brought into existence by the adoption of effective enforcement machinery, sometimes embedded within the nation states, sometimes formed at transnational level. With Britain enmesh